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HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
HCL Digital Experience 9.0
Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
Installing
HCL Digital Experience provides flexible deployment options that range from proof-of-concept where you can examine and test functionality to a highly available and scalable production environment. Review the planning information to learn more about hardware and software requirements, high availability, scalability, supported topologies, and much more. Select your operating system and then select the installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
Roadmaps to create your website
Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.

HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy Content]
- HCL Digital Experience 9.0
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
  - Overview
    HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences per user.
  - Supported migration paths
    Migration is supported between equivalent offerings. Starting with CF17, additional migration options are supported for HCL Portal server and HCL Web Content Manager offerings.
  - Getting the software
    New and existing users need to sign up or register at HCL Software and download their HCL Digital Experience package.
  - Installing
    HCL Digital Experience provides flexible deployment options that range from proof-of-concept where you can examine and test functionality to a highly available and scalable production environment. Review the planning information to learn more about hardware and software requirements, high availability, scalability, supported topologies, and much more. Select your operating system and then select the installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
    - Planning to install HCL Digital Experience
      Before you install HCL Digital Experience in a production environment, you need to assess your hardware and software needs, possible database configurations, security options, and LDAP server options. Skipping this important step can lead to unexpected results and costly delays.
    - Roadmaps to deploy your system
      Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.
    - Roadmaps to create your website
      Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.
      - Roadmap: Importing web content
        When you set up a new site, you might have content in an existing system that you need to migrate or import into your site.
      - Roadmap: Setting up the site for the content author
        To help content authors reach their goals, a team of developers, administrators, designers, and information architects work together behind the scenes to set up the site. Page creation is a common goal of content authors. The page templates that are included when you install the product are great for exploring Site Manager and for some scenarios. As content authors add content, new sections of your site might require custom pages. The roadmaps in this section group common tasks that various roles within a technical team complete to implement a design wire frame for a new landing page.
    - Installing and preparing the prerequisite software
      Before you install the digital experience software, make sure that the prerequisite software is installed and configured. Depending on your environment, you might already have the prerequisites, such as a database server and user registry. Verify that the prerequisite software is the correct version, has the required fix packs applied, and is configured to work with the digital experience software.
    - Installing HCL Digital Experience software
      HCL Digital Experience is designed to help create, manage, simplify, and integrate your processes into an engaging online experience. HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager are a part of the HCL Digital Experience.
  - Migrating to WebSphere Application Server V9.0
    If you are installing HCL Digital Experience Version 9.0, migrate your IBM WebSphere Application Server to Version 9.0.
  - Configuring
    Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
  - Reference
    View information that can help you use, including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
- HCL Digital Experience 8.5
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.

Roadmaps to create your website

Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.

Prerequisites: Planning to install HCL Digital Experience